List of Famous people born in August

Didier Haudepin is a French actor, film producer, director and screenwriter. He has appeared in 44 films and television shows, and plays since 1960. His film Those Were the Days was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. He is most well known for his lead role in Les amitiés particulières, the film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Roger Peyrefitte, as Alexandre Motier.

Olivier Norek is a French writer of crime fiction. He was born in Toulouse in 1975. He served as an aid worker in Guyana and the former Yugoslavia. He became a policeman, serving for 18 years and eventually rising to the rank of captain in the Seine-Saint-Denis district.

Philip Martin Dunne is a British Conservative Party politician. Since 2005, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ludlow constituency in Shropshire.

Ragna (Ragnheiður) Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic writer, translator and artist. She studied at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands and also spent time in Denmark. In addition she studied French at Aix-en-Provence. In 1987 she debuted with a collection of her short stories and poems titled Stefnumót ("Date"), followed in by Fallegri en flugeldar, 27 herbergi and the novels Borg, Skot ("Shot"), Strengir ("Strings"), Hið fullkomna landslag and Bónusstelpan In her career she has been long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award.

Ann Biderman is an American film and television writer. She is the creator and executive producer of the NBC/TNT series Southland (2009–2013), and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Drama Series for an episode of NYPD Blue. She created, wrote, and produced the Showtime drama Ray Donovan.

Alexandre Usov is a Belarusian racing cyclist. His specialty is sprinting.

Olia Tira, also known by her stage name FLUX LIGHT, is a Moldovan singer.